“Both Operation LASER and PredPol are sponsored by the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance’s SMART Policing Initiative, which aims to use ‘evidence-based, data-driven’ policing strategies to try and pre-empt and prevent crime.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/11/predictive-policing-surveillance-los-angeles/
“Around a dozen Google employees have already quit over the company’s involvement in an artificial intelligence drone program for the Pentagon called Project Maven.”
Read more: https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/14/google-project-maven-employee-protest/
“A former Missouri sheriff has been charged with using an online service operated by law enforcement contractor Securus to track cell phones illegally.”
Read more: https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/269259-your-cell-carrier-selling-your-location-data
“A seemingly unsupervised CBP agent improperly attempted to force Twitter to produce records on a particular user without a court order — completely disregarding whether the summons was legal.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/07/cbp-alt-uscis-twitter/
“The story of their success is about thriving after surviving a brutal war that left them with nearly nothing.”
“Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm has decided that the two cops responsible for this horrifying incident will not be charged.”
Read more: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/innocent-man-killed-police-shower-taser/
“What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater.”
“Fear and loathing of sex offenders lead to results that would be recognized as unjust and illogical in any other context.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/04/30/he-has-to-register-as-a-sex-offender-for
“Fontana is the third California desert town now known to have used this firm to prosecute nuisance cases and code violations, then turn around and demand thousands of dollars from citizens months—even years—after they settle.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/05/01/california-town-hired-private-law-firm-t
“Sweeping language catches up not just scary looking AR-15’s, but also encompasses common target shooting rifles that are particularly ill-suited to the commission of any gun crimes.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/05/01/insanely-broad-definition-of-assault-wea